[vbox-dev] Porting guest additions to Syllable

[Turki Al-Marri]

On 7/18/07, Alexey Eremenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/17/07, Turki Al-Marri <turki.almarri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/17/07, Alexey Eremenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 7/16/07, Turki Al-Marri <turki.almarri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Thank you all for the hints. You gave me a good starting point.
> > > >
> > > > BTW: please update the supported guest OSes list
> > > > [http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes].
> > > >
> > >
> > > Well, I have tried today VBox 1.4.0 with Syllable 0.6.4, and it failed
> > > to install the GRUB bootloader. So it still doesn't works.
> >
> > At the end of installation you are given the option where do you want
> > to install GRUB, you should press "m" (for MBR). It worked for me
> > using VirtualBox 1.4 in Kubuntu. So I have to disagree, it does work.
> >
>
> I have used "m" too for MBR, the setup returned me an error, and when
> I restarted from HDD, nothing happened (just black screen).

That's totally weird!

Here is what I did in Kubuntu feisty:
- Add the feisty repo to /etc/apt/sources.list
- Add the innotek key
- sudo apt-get install VirtualBox
- Accept the license agreement
- Compile vboxdrv (the installer did that)
- Run innotek VirtualBox
- Create a new Virtual Machine
- Let it use the Syllable iso
- Run it, boot from disk, and install
- Reboot, and enjoy

Maybe you were using an older or a development version of VirtualBox?
or maybe a corrupt iso (that's not rare with sourceforge.net)?

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